A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.

Mr. Schmemann, an Opinion writer, is a former Moscow bureau chief of The Times. Efforts to halt the war in Ukraine, now approaching its fourth year, have all failed. The Trump administration is now ...